Possible ideas for a new box?

[GK]

Hey all Happy New Years. 

Besides family I think the thing I miss the most is PLUG. MN was good,
TN is okay but I'm sorry they aren't your calibre.

Hopefully before tax time and I have to move soon (Feb.) I want to get a
box for compiling mainly and that can handle burnin typ testing. A
laptop/netbook can't handle that load IMHO. A desktop is going to have
to be the route because I can fix the heat problem with fans easily.

I want to jump into 64 bit userland, if I couldn't get an AMD quad core
at least get a minimum. 8-16 gb RAM, ya I'm a RAM hog, but i LOVE it!
Min. 1TB hdd maybe an ssd kicker just for the os. I run Arch/Slack and
want to delve further into them or add LFS. Monitor really doesn't
matter because I can ssh in or get a cheap lcd from Goodwill. BUT the
thing I want the most is being "green" ie, I don't want 500>W of PSU on
this box making my electric go really fast round and round. Below 150W
for the PSU with operating at 60W is optimum. I don't care about a GPU,
onboard is more than sufficient.

I've run shuttles and like them, I've looked at the itx/atx boards and
besides RAM, CPU, PSU, and storage... it will have to boot from an
external DVD-ROM or even USB flashie itself. The smallest cases I see in
retail is like the HP/DELL minis, or the Windows Media Ctr.... I saw a
kick ass "Wyte" box... it was basically a thin client connected to their
mainframes/servers. The thing with ITX was the boards are $300 and so
are the cases!

Is there any thing I'm missing? I really can't think of any things.
Experiences, good and bad are more than welcome so I can feel my way
through. I love teh asus barebones from newegg, but it may look like
Shuttle is going to win out again.....

VampirePenguin
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